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I now regret not making an account earlier (I'm 126xxx). I was totally fine being an Anonymous Coward. It was only when I realized that having an account still

• devrandomguy 9y ago
  Hah, same. I still haven't signed up for an account, but I've been getting a fair bit of my news there since around 1998, before people bragged about UIDs. As a child, I learned a lot about how the grownup world worked, by lurking in their threads. What really amazes me more than anything though, is how willing some of us are to trust Microsoft all of a sudden. They did damage to the software and web communities that will take us decades to recover from, but with another round of "embrace", we are right back in the old loop. Reminding people of their history is now considered rude; our own communities have been co-opted by the MS PR machine.
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  Imzy tried that. It went quite poorly. It's possible that with different moderation, notifications, blocking, and post mechanics this might have been less of a problem. But the site's design and architecture more or less perfectly amplified everything that could possibly go wrong with the concept. It died in less than a year after going public. I'd anticipated it wouldn't go well, but that it failed that hard and fast surprised me. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imzy_experience_well_that_escalated_quickly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imz...